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Recognizing the responsibility institutions have to prepare teachers for today's diverse classrooms, Vavrus shows us how to incorporate transformative multicultural education into teacher education curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation. Placing race, racism, antiracism, and democracy at the center of his analyses and recommendations, this volume provides.
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The Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education has been created to provide educators with an easy to use single volume reference work. The encyclopedia consists of more than 400 terms, phrases, concepts, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, significant contributes to the American macro culture from the country's various racial and or ethnic backgrounds and key even and count cases related to multicultural education. Arranged alphabetically, each entry is define...
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Whiteness is a narrative. It is the privileged dimension of the complex story of "race" that was, and continues to be, seminal in shaping the socio-economic structure and cultural climate of the United States and other Western nations. Without acknowledging this story, it is impossible to understand fully the current political and social contexts in which we live. Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness explores multiple analyses of whiteness,...
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Multiculturalism is one of the most widely discussed concepts in education today. Now, educators, university students, scholars, or anyone interested in multiculturalism can turn to the Dictionary of Multicultural Education to gain further information on and understanding of this important field. As the authoritative reference work on the subject, the Dictionary includes in-depth explanations of the history, use, and implications of more than 150...
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Offering a conceptual framework and practical strategies for teacher preparation in schools with increasingly diverse racial and ethnic student populations, this book presents a coherent approach to educating culturally responsive teachers. The authors focus on the importance of recruiting and preparing a diverse teaching force, as they propose a vision for restructuring the teacher education curriculum, reconceiving the pedagogy used to prepare prospective...
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"Sonia Nieto and her co-author, Patty Bode, look at how personal, social, political, cultural, and educational factors affect the success or failure of students in today's classrooms. Expanding upon their popular case-study approach, the fifth edition of this text examines the lives of twenty-two real students who are affected by multicultural education, or the lack of it."--BOOK JACKET.
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This book provides ideas and strategies that will help children at the elementary and middle school level develop an awareness of and appreciation for other cultures while enjoying physical activity. Easy and fun to use, the book features 75 games from 43 countries or cultures on six continents.
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"This book is intended for general readers interested in theoretical and practical problems revolving around multiculturalism and education. Most, if not all, philosophical debates come down to the fundamental conflict between conceptions of goods and rights. Current debates about multiculturalism and pluralism, especially in the area of education, often pit the goods of communities against right-claims of other groups or individuals, which leads...
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"As the end of the century draws closer, one of the most pressing challenges facing educators in the United States is the specter of an "ethnic and cultural war"--A code phrase that engenders our society's licentiousness toward racism. In Dancing with Bigotry, Macedo and Bartolome use examples from the mass media, popular culture, and politics to illustrate the larger situations facing educators and how this type of argument is both ignored in much...
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Presents essays in which the author, an African-American teacher, chronicles her efforts to understand the perspectives her multi-racial students bring to the classroom, discussing the reasons why many white and middle-class African-American teachers encounter problems teaching students from different cultures.
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